Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.